Politics
Polls opened across Latvia June 8 for the main voting day in the 2024 European Parliament elections.
Early voting for the European Parliament elections continued on Friday, June 7 with 945 polling stations in open from 13:00 to 18:00.
The European Parliament (EP) pre-election period in Latvia, which lasts 120 days, has so far passed relatively calmly, the Chief of the State Police Armands Ruks said June 7 on Latvian Television's "Morning Panorama".
Since February, the interest of the Latvian population in the European Parliament elections has not changed significantly – both at the end of February and at the end of May, 32% of respondents indicated that they do not plan to follow the elections, according to a public opinion poll conducted by the research center "Norstat" in cooperation with LSM.lv.
On June 6, the second day of advance voting in Latvia, around 48,000 voters took part in the European Parliament elections, and a total of at least 4.1% of voters cast their ballots on the two previous voting days, according to data from the Central Election Commission.